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Zimbabwe Proverb

We each have seasons of challenges, struggles, and hardships.  We also have seasons of joy, delight, prosperity, and gratitude.  November just so happens to be the month that many people begin to reflect on the happenings, tone, and events of the past 10 months:. (perseverance, goals achieved, blessings, milestones, blessings, thanksgiving, and Truths).  It's the perfect timing as we are in an 8 week countdown til the year 2013.  

A testimony passed from one person to the next comes from the roots of a Zimbabwe Proverb.  It was passed down to me from an acquaintance named Bridget.  We met through an organization we both mentor in.  She shared her testimony which includes every possible calamity, like Job, in modern day: stricken with illness that faces death, possibly being paralyzed for the rest of her life,  siblings running away and never to be seen again, to being flat broke in a foreign land.  But by God's grace and through art and story telling she was blessed by these little things.  Someone shared with her, then she dared to face her fears and drew it out. 


Bridget's Interpretation of the Zimbabwe Proverb
If you can talk, 
You can SING,
If you can walk,
You can DANCE.

May these words and creative arts find you in peace and bless you where ever you may be.  With God and the deposit of the Holy Spirit, we are given a power that helps us to believe and act in immeasurably possible ways of faith.  As we approach the holiday seasons may we not only reflect but, be filled with a faith that EXPECTS, MAGNIFIES, BLESSES, and EXTOLS the Lord.   

Like I heard in church service the other day, if God is to be magnified, made BIG, and extolled, made to LIFT UP, and the power is in us, may our faith be like dynamite.  
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